Amazon has been the forerunner in getting consumers to trade privacy for convenience, at least in the ecommerce sector. Amazon’s new AI-powered shopping feature called “Help Me Decide,” which it described as follows, highlights how much data from shoppers it Read more
If selling on Amazon could be compared to the “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” game, sellers now have three “lifelines” thanks to a new feature rolling out called Amazon Seller Challenge for members of Account Health Assurance (AHA). Some Read more
Amazon AWS experienced an outage that demonstrated how many companies are dependent on Amazon’s web-hosting cloud services. In fact, the outage earned a special alert on the top of DownDetector on Monday morning: “User reports indicate issues at Amazon Web Read more
Amazon is creating 250,000 jobs in the US this holiday season, including full-time, part-time, and seasonal positions. They aren’t just jobs in cities and suburbs – Amazon said the hiring plans include rural areas. It’s investing over $1 billion into Read more
Online sellers face another cost that takes a bite out of their margins. Amazon began charging state sales tax on seller ads on October 1, 2025. It applies to sellers located in a single state for now, but like other Read more
Next year, sellers will have to wait much longer to get funds from their sales on Amazon. Beginning March 12, 2026, sellers will have a standard reserve period of seven days after delivery date (DD+7). “Moving your reserve setting to Read more
How do you hold a large corporation – and its executives – accountable for deceiving customers? Last week, the FTC was satisfied with a multi-billion dollar fine and restitution to consumers without forcing the alleged “culprits” (Amazon and two of Read more
Amazon’s agentic AI-powered Seller Assistant tool that it introduced last year can now reason, plan, and help sellers take action, the company planned to announce today at its Accelerate seller conference. The company made bold claims about how Seller Assistant Read more
Amazon announced the date of its 4th annual Prime Big Deal Days, boasting it would include “millions of early deals exclusively for Prime members” in Monday’s announcement. It’s Amazon’s first sale exclusively for Prime members since restricting how shoppers could Read more
Amazon uses Machine Learning technology to advise sellers which of the products they sell would be a good fit for its fulfillment service through a feature called Amazon FBA Enrollment Opportunities. On Tuesday, it announced it had integrated FBA Enrollment Read more
